Motorway Mile muncher

[Ankh87]

Hi all,

My diesel work horse is needing a little work doing, needs around £800-1200 spending on it really to make it fully working, its only really worth £1500-2000 at best.

I'm looking to spend a max of £18k on something much newer but I'm wondering if it is really worth it. I'm doing anything from 17,000-21,000 miles (95% are motorway and dual carriageway miles) due to work. Ideally I don't want to do another diesel because of all these adblue and dpf/egr issues as I don't trust people actually doing a regen correctly.

So my options would be possible an full EV like a Tesla 3LR with highish miles, a plug-in hybrid, petrol hybrid or just stick with what I have and fix the diesel work horse until there's a much more expensive bill like clutch or engine goes bang.

I can charge at home.
Also work is 35 miles away so that's a total of 70 miles at least a day.

Edited by Ankh87 on Monday 13th January 09:16

Edited by Ankh87 on Monday 13th January 09:19

[ChocolateFrog]

If you can charge at home and don't need to use fast chargers then you'd save a good chunk doing 20000 miles a year. Conservatively about £1600 a year.

But then your cheap current car won't lose anything in depreciation relatively speaking.

[Ankh87]

ChocolateFrog said:

If you can charge at home and don't need to use fast chargers then you'd save a good chunk doing 20000 miles a year. Conservatively about £1600 a year.

But then your cheap current car won't lose anything in depreciation relatively speaking.

Yeah I can charge up at home or will be able to as I have a driveway.

As you say the current car isn't going to lose much value so is it worth it really. Also thinking that maybe a petrol plug-in hybrid just as the day drive is 70-75 miles a day.